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()6th Congress, ) SENATE. . ( Document 

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DESTRUCTION OF AMERICAN LIFE AND PROPERTY IN 

MEXICO. 

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MESSAGE 

FROM THE 



PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 

TRANSMITTING 

IN RESPONSE TO SENATE RESOLUTION OF JUNE 19, 1919, A RE- 
PORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN RESPECT TO CLAIMS 
AGAINST MEXICO FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF LIFE AND PROP- 
ERTY OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN THAT COUNTRY. 



December 4 (calendar day, December 5), 1919. — Read; referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. 



To the Senate : 

I transmit herewitli a report from tlie Secretary of State in further 
response to the resolution adopted by the Senate on June 19, 1919, 
in respect to claims against Mexico for the destruction of life ancl 
property of American citizens in that country. This supplemental 
report states the number of nationals of other countries than the 
United States who have been killed in Mexico since May 25, 1911, 
the date on which President Diaz resigned the presidency of Mexico. 

WooDEOw Wilson. 

The White PIouse, 

5 December, 1919. 



The President: 

The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to refer to 
his report, dated the 31st of July last, in which a reply, in part, is 
made to the resolution adopted by the Senate on June 19, 1919, in 
respect to claims against Mexico for the destruction of life and 
property of American citizens in that country, and, in further reply 
to the resolution, has the honor to state that the number of nationals 
of other countries than the United States who have been killed in 
Mexico since President Diaz resigned, as gathered from reports from 
the representatives of this Government in Mexico, is 927, as follows: 
Chinese, 471; Spanish, 209; Arabs, 111; British, 38; Italian, 16; 
French, 14; Japanese, 10; and miscellaneous, 58. 

Respectfully submitted. 

\ I .'. Robert Lansing. 

Department of State, >>; , 

Washington, December 3, 191^. 

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